Posted on Monday, February 20 2012 @ 20:13 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Neowin
reports Microsoft has decided to extend the support for its Windows Vista operating system until April 2017:
New features such as IE10 will no longer be added to Vista after April 2012 but the operating system will continue to receive security updates for five more years.
Recently it appears as though Microsoft has extended the support for Windows Vista until 2017. This is surprising, considering originally Microsoft made it clear that the consumer versions of Windows Vista would only get five years of support up until April 2012, leaving users without any patches after that date. Now this has date has been pushed back to April 2017 via “Extended Support.”
The Extended Support for Windows is different to the Mainstream Support in that it doesn’t include feature updates, namely after April 2012 (the Mainstream Support end date) Microsoft will no longer add any new features to Windows Vista. This completely rules out the operating system getting Internet Explorer 10 for example. Extended Support does include security patches though, ensuring that anyone that uses Vista will still remain secure right up until 2017.
